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Bumble is in advanced talks to go private in a deal worth about $1 billion, Reuters reported on Monday, October 12, 2026. Ithaca Holdings is the prospective buyer. The talks come as Bumble tries to win back users with AI. Neither company has confirmed a deal. Both declined to comment. Still, Bumble shares surged roughly 50% to $3.80 that Monday, their biggest one-day percentage gain on record. A $1 billion price tag for a $14 billion debut Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble went public in 2021 at a valuation of about $14 billion. Five years later, the proposed price tells a very different story. Paolo Pescatore, an analyst for PP Foresight, said the potential agreement is proof of Bumble’s difficulties, adding that: Going private looks less like a strategic masterstroke and more like an admission that Bumble’s current strategy is failing. The numbers a buyer would inherit Bumble’s Q2 results indicate the reasons for the investors’ concerns. Its revenue declined by 15.2% year-over-year to $210.5 million. The number of paying users also dropped by 16.4% to 3.2 million. Bumble reported a net loss of $127.9 million of which $169.3 million were impairment charges, even though the adjusted EBITDA represented $72.9 million. The slide started earlier. In 2025, the company registered a near 10% drop in revenue that amounted to approximately $966 million, while its paying user base declined by more than 11% to approximately 3.7 million. Bumble Revenue and Paying Users Decline in 2025 and Q2 2026 Industry fatigue, or a Bumble problem Bumble’s competitor, Match Group, appears to be doing better as revenue fell only 1% to $853 million in the second quarter. Meanwhile, net income increased by 36% to $171 million. Tinder also showed signs of improvement. Daily active users dropped by only 4% year-on-year, which was the smallest decline in the last 10 quarters. Hinge’s revenue has increased by 22%. Match aims to bring Hinge’s annual revenue to $1 billion by 2027. Dating-app fatigue remains a challenge. But Match’s results suggest Bumble’s issues range beyond just the users getting bored with swiping. Bumble vs Match Group Q2 2026: Revenue, Profit and User Trends Can AI pull users back, or push them away Bumble hopes its AI-led Bumble 2.0 can change that. The redesign brings richer, chapter-style profiles and the possibility of swipe-free dating. Its March unveiling helped send shares up more than 40%. Wolfe Herd had earlier floated AI dating concierges, as Cryptopolitan reported. Whether users want that help is less clear. A peer-reviewed study suggests confidence in algorithms can encourage AI dating adoption. Yet an SSRN working paper reported 54% fewer usage minutes and 62% fewer app openings among the AI adopters studied. Those findings do not represent all daters. At the same time, less expensive AI will make companion chatbots more attractive than dating apps. However, the use of these chatbots raises privacy and security issues, as noted by the Congressional Research Service. The opportunity remains substantial: Grand View Research estimates a $10.7 billion global dating-app market in 2026, reaching $17.9 billion by 2033. The challenge is converting AI features into users who stay, pay, and trust the platform Micah Abiodun | usagoldmines.com
October 13, 2026

XRP Analyst Flags Biggest Institutional Unlock That The Market Has Ever Seen Sandra White | usagoldmines.com

A popular XRP community figure is making a case that the XRP Ledger is on the cusp of a transformation that would change how institutional capital works with decentralized infrastructure. The comment was based on the newly proposed AMM Swappable Curves standard, which seeks to improve XRPL’s native automated market maker beyond the existing XLS-30 design. The proposal is still at the community review and amendment stage, but it is already a major talking point among XRP supporters.

XRPL’s Native AMM Could Be Set For A Major Amendment

The current XRPL native AMM is based on XLS-30, which brought automated market maker functionality to the XRP Ledger and connected it directly to the network’s decentralized exchange. This allows XRPL trades to tap into AMM pools, the order book, or a mix of both, depending on where liquidity is best available.

The proposed AMM Swappable Curves standard would build on that foundation by introducing a pluggable curve architecture. According to the draft posted under XRPL Standards discussion #547 on GitHub, pool creators would be able to choose the invariant function at pool creation. The initial set includes ConstantProduct, ConcentratedLiquidity, and StableSwap curves, with Smart AMM pools reserved for a later companion specification.

Furthermore, the current XLS-30 model uses a single constant-product structure. Constant-product pools are useful for volatile pairs, but they spread liquidity across the full price range. The new proposal is because this is inefficient for correlated assets, especially stablecoin pairs, FX pairs, and tokenized assets that usually trade close to a narrow value range.

Biggest Institutional Unlock XRP Has Ever Seen

X Finance Bull described the proposed AMM Swappable Curves updates on the XRP Ledger as possibly the biggest institutional unlock XRP has ever seen, and XRPL’s native DEX is about to receive a major liquidity infrastructure upgrade. 

According to him, the upgrade is comparable to the kind of innovation that helped turn Uniswap V3 into a dominant DeFi trading venue on Ethereum, but with the XRP Ledger’s advantages of burned fees, fast transaction settlement, and very low transaction cost.

He explained that the main reason institutions may care is execution quality. Large stablecoin swaps between RLUSD and USDC could be carried out with almost zero price impact, which is the kind of standard that banks require before moving serious volume through any venue. From here, tighter FX pair settlement and more practical RWA trading at an institutional scale could follow if liquidity becomes more efficient.

X Finance Bull also pointed to the benefits for capital providers, noting that they could earn stronger returns by focusing liquidity where it matters most instead of spreading it thinly across the entire market. This will create a flywheel effect, where better pools attract more volume, higher volume attracts more liquidity providers, and better liquidity attracts larger institutions. XRPL is becoming competitive with every major DeFi venue on earth. 

XRP price chart from Tradingview.com  

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